A photo of a farm owner supervising braceros as they harvest sugar beets and toss them in the back of the truck, 1942.

A photo of a farm owner supervising braceros as they harvest sugar beets and toss them in the back of the truck, 1942.

Description: The original description from photographer Hal Higgins reads: “President Robert Barr of the Central California Beet Growers' Assoc. And his crew of Mexicans recently imported into California to save the record crop. Mr. Barr likes the Mexican labor above all other for beet field work and says his crew had no trouble learning to top and load beets under his leadership, as they averaged 3 1/2 tons the first week and went up to 4 tons the second week.”

Citation Information

Higgins, Floyd Halleck, “Robert Barr standing on the back of a truck with Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into the truck,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/3420f07c27d02333e3297c193ce664db.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of University of California Davis, Special Collections via California Digital Library.